CWDS Glossary
The CWDS Glossary includes a List of Acronyms and defined terms captured from various models, reports, and other artifacts pertaining to the Child Welfare System – California Automated Response and Engagement System (CWS-CARES) Project. The Glossary standardizes terms used across the various project disciplines; each term is defined with its meaning specific to the project domain.
The State may update the CWDS Glossary at any time. Any questions please contact CWDS Communications.
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Persistent / Persistence
In computer science, refers to the characteristic of state that outlives the process that created it (e.g., database transaction).
Persona
Personas are not real people, but they are based on the behaviors and motivations of real people we have observed and represent them throughout the design process. They are composite Archetypes based on behavioral data gathered from the many actual users encountered in ethnographic interviews.
Pilot
A hardware and software migration method that involves rolling out the CWS-CARES to a small group of Users for testing and evaluation.
Pilot Counties
A small group of California counties that will be the first to be implement the CWS-CARES.
Pivotal Tracker
An Agile project management and collaboration software that allows teams to collaborate and react to real-world changes instantly. Pivotal Tracker maintains a prioritized backlog of project Deliverables, broken down into small, estimated pieces, called stories. It dynamically groups these stories into fixed segments of time, called iterations, and it predicts progress based on real historical performance (velocity).
Placement
Any pending approval, approved or certified home, licensed facility or court ordered residence where a child lives away from their family of origin.
Planning Advance Planning document (PAPD)
An outline state systems staff can use to develop a PAPD. A PAPD is used by states to request funding for planning the development of a new child support enforcement system. The PAPD will include a commitment by the state to conduct a feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis.
Plan of Action and Mitigation (POAM)
A mitigation action is a specific action, project, activity, or process taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from hazards and their impacts. Implementing mitigation actions helps achieve the plan’s mission and goals. The actions to reduce vulnerability to threats and hazards form the core of the plan and are a key outcome of the planning process.
Plan of Correction (POC)
A plan developed by the licensee or authorized facility representative and jointly agreed to by the LPA as to how and when a deficiency(s) shall be corrected in order to bring the facility into compliance.
Platform
A set of tools and programming components that can be used to assemble applications. Example: Salesforce is a platform. CARES is an application.